Where things unravel is with the momentary disconnect between when you press a button and when Thor takes action. This lag interrupts combos, ruins quick time events, makes parrying and reflecting attacks an exercise in futility and causes you to miss jumps you should make in your sleep. Had the game not featured an auto recover, which doesn’t allow Thor to sustain fall damage, there’s no telling if my controller would’ve survived the experience.

Everything works well and the feeling of dodging projectiles while alternating between your weapons is great. On occasion your mech won’t respond quite as nimbly as the situation dictates, but that’s almost certainly a design choice rather than a control flow.

Where the game struggles is when trying to create distance from enemies as it’s basically impossible to run and manipulate the camera (done via the d-pad) simultaneously. The workaround is to flee, and then press the left bumper to quickly lock onto a foe, adjusting your view in the process. It’s imprecise, though, as it causes you to come to a complete stop. Manually aiming weapons like the grenade launcher and sniper rifle is painfully slow, and it demonstrates just how dependent the game is on the auto-aiming system.